Library  reports 


Why  issued 

Library  law 

in  states,  Illinois,  Ohio 


in  cities,  Los  Angelos 
Wish  of  proprietors  or  directors 


Long  established  custom 
Wa t e rt o wn , Mas  s . 


By  whom  issued 

Board  of  managers  o^  directors 

Minneapolis,  St.  Louis  public,  St  Joseph,  etc. 


Libr ar ian 

Cornell,  Harvard,  University  of  Michigan 


To  whom  addressed 

Mayor  or  council  or  both 

Proprietors  (Redwood  library  - Providence  Athenaeum) 
President  of  University  (Cornell) 


Form 

Pamphlet 

Examples : Most  all  reports 

Minneapolis,  Chicago  public,  Cleveland,  etc. 


9 Je  l5r\a. 


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OVbs\  , 


Book 

Example 

Report  of  State  librarian  of  Iowa 


Lea  fie  t 

Examples:  Cornell,  Aurora  public 


Form  of  printing 
Tabulated 

Providence  Public  mostly 


Paragraphed 

University  of  Michigan 
Enoch  Pratt,  Balt. 


(May  be  either  printed, 
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(typewritten  or 
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(wr i tte  n by  hand 


Mixed  (most  common) 


Number  printed 

State  libraries,  usually  500 

Public  " depends  upon  no.  needed 

Where  sent 

If  state,  1 each  to  members  of  legislature,  state  officers, 
all  state  & territorial  lib. 

Washington,  50  distributed,  >'*emaining  to  any  one 
Why  s ent 

Usually  by  request 


Exchange 


Digitized  by  the  Internet  Archive 
in  2017  with  funding  from 

University  of  Illinois  Urbana-Champaign  Alternates 


https://archive.org/details/libraryreportsOOcarm 


Kinds  of  reports,  according  to  frequency  of  issue 
Daily,  Used  at  Detroit 

Simply  a report  of  each  assistant,  telling  time  he  be- 
gan work  went  to  dinner,  returned,  went  to  supper, 
returned,  finished  work,  net  time. 


Monthly.  Used  at  Evanston,  in  New  York  free  circulating  li- 
brary. 

States  circulation,  sometimes  by  classes,  daily  aver- 
age, increase  or  decrease  since  previous  month,  regis- 
tration of  month,  reading  room  circulati on,  sometimes 
by  classes,  reading-room  readers,  whether  male,  female 
adult,  minor,  total  no.,  average,  increase  or  decrease 
gifts,  purchases,  losses,  volumes  bound,  cash  account. 

Annual 


Annual 

Material  contained 

List  of  officers  oflibrary,  both  board  & staff 
General  statement  of  condition  of  library,  signed  by 
President  of  Board  of  Managers  or  directors,  or  by 
Chairman  of  committee,  or  by  entire  Board  of  directors 
or  by  entire  committee.  This  is  introductory  to  what 
follows,  & usually  tells  the  general  condition  of  the 
various  departments,  which  the  librarian  takes  up  in 
detail.  It  tells  the  progress  of  the  library  & any 
changes  in  administration  or  b’ldg. 


Librarian's  report 

Statement  of  no.  of- days,  secular,  & Sundays,  library 
has  been  open 
Full  book  account 

No.  in  lib.  at  last  report,  both  books  & pamphlets 
No.  added  by  purchase,  gift  or  exchange 
No  lost,  sold,  worn  out 

No.  in  lib.  at  present  time  usually  by  classes 
Binding  account 

No.  Newly  bound 


No.  rebound  or  mended 


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Circulat ion 
Monthly 

Classified,  for  year 

Reference  department  & reading  room 

Mo.  of  days  open  & how  long  each  day 
No.  of  bks.  used,  sometimes  by  classes 
Ho.  of  persons 

Daily  average  of  books  consulted  & of  persons  consulting 
them . 

Registration 

No.  of  cards  out  at  beginning  of  year 
No.  of  new  cards  given  out 
No.  at  end  of  year 

Catalo  ging 

Progress  & condition 

Cash  account 
Receipts 
Expendi tures 
Special  funds 

Other  items  of  special  interest,  depending  upon  individual 
case.  Ex. :Milwaukee  public  library  would  at  present 
• give  account  & progress  of  new  b'ld'g. 

Appendices 

List  of  donors,  with  no.  of  vol . or  pamph.  given 
Usually  a straight  alphabetical  list  but  sometimes 
divided  into  Individuals,  Libraries,  Government,  or 
Residents,  Non-residents,  (Concord,  Mass.)  Gifts  of 
each  donor  given  in  rept . of  Burlington,  Vt . 

List  of  periodicals 

Usually  a straight  alphabetical  list,  but  sometimes 

divided  into  ;I Reading  room.  To  be  called  for  at  desk. 


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Various  other  lists,  tabular  statements  of  different  de- 
partments expenses,  etc. 

Copy  of  act  of  legislature  or  incorporat  i on  sometimes 
Rules  of  library,  sometimes  (Cleveland) 

Finding  list,  sometimes  (Iowa  state  library) 

Index,  or  contents 

Biennial 

State  libraries,  Iowa,  Indiana 


College  libraries,  University  of  Michigan 


Maude  W.  Straight 

1895 


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